Finally.
Apparently there’s a venue that has been open for 4 months on Rampart that’s not a jazz club or seedy gay bar. Like the love child of Mimi’s and Butler’s, behold, is King Bolden’s.
A friend brought me there last night where Sean (the old hip-hop DJ from the now defunct Butler’s) was spinning some awesome tracks to a random NOLA crowd. Next Saturday night should be a fantastic night to check it out with some great out of town DJs and Soul Sister (unfortunately booted out of Mimi’s on Saturday night after nine months due to resident complaints of being too loud - an awesome thing to be booted for) is spinning there on Essence weekend.
If you were a regular of Soul Sister saturdays at Mimi’s, the next best thing might just be on the 800 block of Rampart. See you there.
Butler’s had a DJ? Dear Lord, a living room in a shotgun double was roomier than that bar, where in the hell did he fit? I still remember playing the ancient atari there about 8 years ago - such a strange bar.
Butlers definitely had several DJs - people used to pack that place beyond capacity and as you noted it was tiny to begin with. Eventually you’d get so hot that you’d go outside to sit on the church steps across the street and make jokes about the having a bar 20 feet from a church.
King Bolden’s is a great place, but to see Soul sister regularly check out another great new club, Handsome Willy’s, at 218 S. Rampart b/t Tulane and Canal every Saturday starting in July!
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